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The ONC aims to have 1,000 rural hospitals demonstrating meaningful use of health IT by the close of 2014. To encourage sharing of best practices and accelerate HIT adoption, the agency has set up the Rural Community of Practice to oversee pilot programs, with subcommittees to track the key issues faced by rural hospitals.

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The ONC and CMS have released an interactive map that enables users to monitor advances in the use of health IT across the country. The map, featured on the ONC's Health IT Dashboard, shows data on payments made under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentives initiatives, health information exchanges, and more.

Creating a successful tele-ICU requires multidisciplinary collaboration, implementation teams, and technical and clinical leadership, according to Gary Anderson of Advanced ICU Care. He says physician engagement, performance measures, quality reporting processes and training also are part of the company's program when developing tele-ICUs in hospitals.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT aims to have 1,000 rural hospitals demonstrating meaningful use of health IT by the close of 2014. To encourage sharing of best practices and accelerate HIT adoption, the agency has set up the Rural Community of Practice to oversee pilot programs, with subcommittees to track the key issues faced by rural hospitals.

Health Net of California has partnered with several hospitals in San Francisco to create an accountable care organization targeted at University of California employees working or living in the area. The effort moves area providers and patients to a care model in which the traditional obstacles to efficient, integrated and coordinated care can be removed, a hospital official said.

Mountain States Health Alliance in Tennessee has garnered this year's National Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum. An MSHA official attributed earning the distinction to a strategic plan that includes implementing 10 patient-centered guiding principles that have a strong focus on care transparency inside and outside hospital walls.